In an interview with NBC News, Mr Trump called Mr Comey "a showboat" and contradicted the earlier versions of events. Vice-President Mike Pence told reporters on Capitol Hill that the dismissial was "the President's decision to accept the recommendation of the Deputy Attorney-General and the Attorney-General".

On Monday, one of the officials said the intelligence discussed by Trump in the meeting with Lavrov was classified "Top Secret" and held in a secure "compartment" to which only a handful of intelligence officials have access. Afterward, White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency, the newspaper said. Graham says that means ruling out former Rep.

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Xi said the project has "no political agenda". The two-day Belt and Road Forum which is being attended by leaders from 29 countries, including Pakistan, has been boycotted by India due to sovereignty concerns over the Dollars 50 billion CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor), which passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Then on Thursday, in an NBC interview, the USA president said he had actually alone chose to fire Mr Comey - who he called a "showboat" and "grandstander". Comey could testify during an investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russian Federation, meaning the president's tweet could be seen as witness intimidation .

Officially a country is in recession when its economy falls for two consecutive quarters. Since then a number of global lenders, including the European Union institutions and the worldwide Monetary Fund, agreed to provide Athens with several bailout packages in exchange for large-scale economic reforms, which suppose introduction of austerity measures.

There's also a political victory for North Korea . And after a March high-thrust rocket engine test, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said "the whole world will soon witness what eventful significance the great victory won today carries".

She added that parents "are free to come and see them anytime" and that the girls are at the rehab centre "of their own free will, nobody is compelling them to be here". The Yaga family, whose daughter Sarah was among the over 200 schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram in 2014, are however still uncertain about the fate of their daughter.

Far more likely, the pair agreed, would be a scenario in which Comey, following a dinner with Trump where the President allegedly asked if he was under investigation, would have prepared a memo about the conversation and shared it with a small number of close associates at the bureau.

So, Putin played some songs on Xi's piano. Putin made the comments on the sidelines of the One Belt One Road summit in Beijing, a meeting of 29 heads of state convened by Chinese President Xi Jinping to push his vision for China's global expansion.

Trump has previously lambasted the nuclear deal with Iran and supported calls for additional sanctions over the country's ballistic missile program. It also stepped up criticism of Iran and Russian Federation for supporting the Syrian government.

After advance and general voting ballots were counted on Tuesday, Christy Clark's Liberals squeaked out a minority government with 43 seats compared with the NDP's 41 and the Greens' three. He did not explicitly say if he would ask Weaver to form a coalition government, however. NDP Leader Horgan reached out to Green voters in his election night speech, mentioning issues that resonate with both parties.